Age Quotes · Page 219

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

— Bennett Cerf

I knew at a young age what my limits were and what my strengths were.

— Jared Dudley

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

— Oliver Goldsmith

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

— Jose Saramago

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

— Shantideva

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

— Hazel Blears

It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and…

— Al Kaline

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look…

— Erma Bombeck

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way,…

— Sienna Miller

I started taking piano lessons from the age of six years old. It's such an essential part of what I do in…

— Kygo

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature -…

— Madame de Stael

Between the age of 30 and going fishing, none of my friendships had any of that magic dust of when you were…

— Bob Mortimer

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be…

— Diane Ackerman

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough…

— Pope John XXIII

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary…

— Malcolm Gladwell

True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each…

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.…

— Carson McCullers

The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking,…

— Tony Robbins

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the…

— Anonymous

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But…

— Erin O'Connor

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

— Spencer W. Kimball

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

— M. Scott Peck

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

— Lucille Ball

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

— Trinny Woodall

You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.

— Bill Clinton

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no…

— Ernest Hemingway

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

— Marguerite Young

I've been ingrained since a young age to compete always and strive to be the best, and I think I'm working toward…

— Zach Ertz

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

— John C. Maxwell

Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.

— Hale Irwin

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

— Anthony Warlow

Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

— Ai Weiwei

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

— W. C. Fields

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

— Teddy Geiger

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

— Donald Rumsfeld